Chapter 112: The Young Girl is Thinking
In a small, worn-out room, a young girl in pajamas smiled as she looked at the mobile phone screen. On the other end of the screen was a handsome young face with a hint of honest simplicity, smiling foolishly and saying something.
“Shinichi-kun, I’m going to wash up and rest now. You should rest early too, and don’t be late tomorrow!”
The young girl, with her usually cold and aloof demeanor, wore a warm smile that didn’t match her appearance. She looked at the person on the phone, her eyes filled with a trace of emotion, and responded softly.
“Mhm, Kazumi, you should rest early too.”
The boy on the other end of the screen also showed a cheerful smile, ending their chat for the night with a hint of reluctance.
“Mhm.”
Kazumi nodded, her right hand moved towards the phone. She hovered her hand in the air for a moment, then finally placed her finger on the hang-up button to end the chat.
“Kazumi!!”
Before the girl’s fair fingers could even touch the button, the hesitant boy on the screen made up his mind and called out to Kazumi, who was about to close the conversation.
“What? What’s wrong?”
Kazumi stopped her action and looked up at the boy in front of her, wondering why he was calling her at that moment.
“I was really happy today to be able to go shopping with you, Kazumi. I’ll work hard to study about love in the future. If there’s anything I do that’s not good enough, please tell me. Otherwise, if you’re unhappy, I’ll be very sad too.”
The boy’s expression was extremely serious at this moment, as if he were willing to stake his life on even such a small matter. His eyes were fixed on the girl on the screen.
[Don’t go out of your way to learn this stuff, do you want to be a bad guy?!]
She couldn’t help but inwardly complain about the boy’s foolish idea. But then, she thought, if Sato Shinichi were to specifically learn dating techniques, wouldn’t that be exactly what she wanted?
What she had wanted before was for him to actively cheat on her, and then she would use his guilt to her advantage. This way, she could avoid the awkwardness of dating a boy and still get something out of him in the end. It was the perfect plan.
Moreover, by the time he truly understood the appeal of women, he would probably no longer be interested in an ordinary person like her, who couldn’t match him in terms of family background, appearance, or figure.
For some reason, Kazumi’s mood inexplicably dropped at this thought. However, she still maintained a feigned smile on her face and said softly to Sato Shinichi on the screen.
“I’m happy to go on a date with you too, Shinichi-kun. You don’t have to be so serious. As long as it’s you, Shinichi-kun, anything you do is fine.”
The pure-hearted young man couldn’t handle such sweet nothings. The boy on the other end of the screen could visibly be seen grinning from ear to ear, his face showing an uncontrollable smile.
Maintaining this state, Kazumi quickly coaxed him into saying goodnight, then forcefully controlled her finger to press the button to end the video call.
The situation was that ever since that dog, by chance, had a video call with Kazumi, he had become self-taught in the art of seizing opportunities and gradually turned their usual evening chats into video calls.
Kazumi didn’t mind at first. She had been struggling with the fact that their long chat times were seriously affecting her studies. She thought that if they had video calls, she could free up her hands and focus on her books while casually replying to the dog.
However, the result was that after the video call ended, the girl, back to her senses, would stare blankly at her unread book and the two hours that had somehow slipped away, as if contemplating issues from her past life in sage mode.
But now, the girl’s mood was not as good as it used to be. After disconnecting the video chat with the dog, she rarely found herself spacing out at their chat interface.
Kazumi now understood Sato Shinichi’s personality quite well. Rather than saying he had low emotional intelligence, it was more accurate to describe it as him being carefree and unconcerned, along with the awkwardness of experiencing first love.
After all, he came from a proper hero family, so his education couldn’t have been lacking. He managed to pass the entrance exam for Shikoku High School, and he got along well with his classmates. There was basically no problem with him having low emotional intelligence.
Therefore, although the dog was a bit simple, it was only because it was his first relationship that he behaved this way. And he was the type of person who was willing to work hard to change for the sake of others. So, Kazumi was sure that Sato Shinichi wouldn’t listen to her few perfunctory words of persuasion.
From the perspective of Kazumi’s twenty-plus years of experience with men, she assumed he was currently looking for one of his troublemaking friends to get this so-called “love guide.”
[In this case, if I push him a little, I should quickly achieve the results I want…]
Looking at the reflection of herself in the small mirror on the table, the girl’s face was not exactly beautiful. Her features were very ordinary, almost to the point of being unrecognizable in a crowd. However, the cold aura she exuded added some points to her overall image, but it could not be said that she was a “beautiful” girl.
[After all, men, who doesn’t like more beautiful girls?]
Thinking about which girl she knew from her school might better suit Sato Shinichi’s aesthetic, Kazumi picked up her pen and intended to construct a mind map in her notebook. However, her right hand, which tightly held the pen, prevented her from writing the first stroke. Her usually calm and efficient mind was now a messy jumble, and she had no idea how to proceed with her thoughts.
“Tch, I don’t want to think about it today!!!”
Realizing that she had almost no impression of other girls due to her poor social skills, Kazumi petulantly threw the pen onto the table, deciding to think about it again tomorrow. It was unclear whether she was angry because she couldn’t figure it out or because of what she was thinking about.
She reached out and took a sip from the tea cup beside her, as if to suppress her chaotic emotions.
Finally, she got that darn dog to go to sleep. As for the time after that, it was time for her to quietly become stronger. As long as she became strong enough, why would she be afraid of being discovered and caught, hiding here and playing a disgusting game of make-believe love with a boy!
Thinking with indignant resentment, Kazumi stood up. The skull tattoo on her right wrist materialized, and a giant coffin emitting a dense aura emerged horizontally from beneath the room’s floor.
She reached out and gently opened the heavy lid of the black coffin. A dense, almost tangible death aura rushed towards Kazumi from within.
